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all the facts of the case. But the evolutionary ideals 

 of at least three of the great world-religions would seem 

 to have forestalled by from two to three thousand years 

 this latest discovery of science. In other words, man's 

 emotional intuitions in this all-important question 

 appear to have been just three cycles ahead of his in- 

 tellectual perceptions. The prophets of Israel, Gau- 

 tama, and Jesus were the first of all the sons of men to 

 look beyond the narrower horizon of national and so- 

 called race prejudice (at a period, too, in the world's 

 history when man's reason regarded almost every 

 separate nationality, tribe, people, caste, or even in- 

 habitants of a city, as constituting a separate race), and 

 catch a glimpse of the larger vision of the essential unity 

 of mankind. All through the intervening ages since 

 they taught, whilst man has been blindly groping his 

 intellectual way upwards, now basing his moral ideas 

 on the inherent antagonism between survival of self 

 and survival of family, survival of tribe, survival of 

 town, survival of nation, survival of so-called races, 

 they have held steadily forth before the view of man- 

 kind their ideal of race unity. This ideal of itself 

 rendered not only violence and war, but murder, 

 adultery, fraud, revenge, hatred, envy, and selfishness, 

 sins which militated against race survival. The only 

 principle that will drive out these primordial passions 

 of the human heart appears to be family love. Love 

 does it already, more or less imperfectly, in our present 

 family life. Love does it already, more or less imper- 

 fectly, in our national life. Love will do it, more or 



